Resources

Page under construction! Keep an eye out for additions to this list of online resources for doing digital history.

Software

• GitHub

• “Building a static website with Jekyll and GitHub Pages” at The Programming Historian.

  Alternate Windows Directions! Work through the Programming Historian lesson up to #6 in On Windows. Don’t do #7! Instead go over to the Jekyll website and follow the directions there (including the installation of the Devkit). After that, return to the Programming Historian and continue to follow the directions there.

• oXygen XML editor

Tutorials and Aids

• Syd Bauman and Julia Flanders, “Overview of TEI Customization,” https://wwp.northeastern.edu/outreach/seminars/intro_2018-04/presentations/customization/customization_overview_00.xhtml.

• Elisa Beshero-Bondar, “Digital Humanities Courses,” https://newtfire.org/courses/dh/index.html.
  This site contains a wealth of information, tutorials, and exercises on a wide range of digital humanities research methodologies.

• Elisa Beshero-Bondar and David Birnbaum, “XPath for processing XML and managing projects,” https://ebeshero.github.io/UpTransformation/index.html.
  This is the course site for a Digital Humanities Summer Institute course. It has excellent materials for learning XPath, XSLT, Schematron, etc.

• David Birnbaum, “Digital Humanities,” http://dh.obdurodon.org/.
  This site contains a wealth of information, tutorials, and exercises on a wide range of digital humanities research methodologies.

• devhints.io XPath Cheat Sheet, https://devhints.io/xpath.

• RegexOne: Learn Regular Expressions with simple, interactive exercises, https://regexone.com/.

• Daniel L. Schwartz, “ODD Customization”.

• Daniel L. Schwartz, “Schematron”.

• TEI Customization.

• TEI listserv: archives link; subscription link.

• The Programming Historian, https://programminghistorian.org/.
  This site contains 80 peer-reviewed, open source, open access lessons covering many of the approaches Historians use in doing and publishing their research.

Readings and Publications

• Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, Digtial History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web, Center for History and New Media, http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/.

• Matthew K. Gold, ed., Debates in the Digital Humanities (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012), http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/tamu/Doc?id=10551807.

• Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, eds., Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action?docID=4392085.

• Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, eds., Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019), http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action?docID=5754589.

• Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, https://journals.openedition.org/jtei/.

• Lisa Spiro, “Getting Started in Digital Humanities,” Journal of Digital Humanities, March 10, 2012, http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/getting-started-in-digital-humanities-by-lisa-spiro/.

• Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth, eds., A Companion to Digital Humanities, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/.